We should perhaps also add an additional question to the mix: les Indiens en Inde devraient-ils manger des aliments de la cuisine indienne? Or if you prefer Hindi: kya bhaaratiya logon ko bhaarat ka khaanaa hee khaanaa chaahiye? Translated: “Should Indians eat Indian food?” So, let us go back to my original set of questions: How much should a Pravaasi Bharatiya relate to India, the country of their ethnicity, as compared to the country of their birth? How much should he or she relate to Indian culture? In a recent email exchange with Ghee Bowman, a British historian with whom I also conversed recently, a member of our team brought up the following additional question: “Why do Indians eat Indian food?” Also, we may ask: “Can we help improve their health outcomes by helping them make some fairly small changes to their diet?” A seemingly innocuous couple of questions like these can help us think about what we are eating more critically, why Indians seem to be particularly susceptible to diabetes, a lifestyle disease, and how our food choices may affect our health.
The Islamic influence in the architecture is, of course, evident. A section from the painting “The Great Mogul and His Court Returning from the Great Mosque at Delhi” by the American artist Edwin Lord Weeks is reproduced here. Muslim kings contributed to Indian culture not only through their food, but also through their beautiful monuments and mausoleums.
Since the medieval period of India featured both Hindu and Muslim rulers, we will be presenting recipes from both Hindu and Muslim royal kitchens. I will be writing the first two or three columns, and exploring these questions from the point of view of an economic historian, after which Amita will be joining me. I will be writing this column in association with Amita Roy, a historian of India specializing in Indian Royalty. Some of the recipes are reputed to go back to the medieval period. This is a food column that will feature recipes from the royal kitchens of India. It can actually be quite easy.īefore I provide a more detailed answer to the questions posed, let me introduce this food column itself. We would also like to make the case that this process does not have to be hard. I would argue that it makes sense for members of the Indian diaspora to connect back to their roots, at least in terms of food, but this is only if they wish to. However, we would like to tackle these questions in this column in a limited way and this will be purely from the point of view of food.
Now, this is not something that can be fully addressed in the circumscribed space of a food column. These are obviously important questions from the point of view of second generation and third generation Indian-Americans as well as other hyphenated Indians.
J.Here are some questions that often come up for second generation members of the Indian diaspora: how much should I relate to India, the country of my ethnicity, as compared with the country of my birth? How much should I relate to Indian culture? Should I relate to it at all, or choose to become - what has been called - completely “whitewashed”? Conversely, is it okay for members of the Indian diaspora to use Indian culture as a punching bag for all of their life’s frustrations and failures? HO, CHARLIE HOLDEN-CORBETT, ADAM ISCOVE, JASMINE JOHNSON
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